Could you imagine if Americans started branding politicians? 99% of
U.S. politicians would be walking around with a star of david branded
on their foreheads.
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NewsCore – Lawmakers from the Liberal Democratic Party want to see the
letter K — a symbol for a bribe-taker — permanently etched on
wrongdoers’ skin.

Party deputies Sergei Ivanov and Igor Lebedev suggested the severe
measure in a new law-and-order bill due to go before Russia’s
parliament, the State Duma.

They say the markings would heap shame on corrupt officials and alert
Russian employers so they could refuse them jobs.

“The authors of the bill believe that branding bribe-takers with
indestructible marks in a visible place to show that they have
committed a crime will enable employers to refuse them employment,” the
centrist party, which holds 40 of 450 seats in the Duma, said in a
statement.

After coming to office in 2008, President Dmitry Medvedev declared
corruption the number one threat to Russian society and introduced a
raft of laws to combat the menace.

However, neither the government nor the Supreme Court are likely to
support the branding initiative, the state-owned news agency said.

Germany-based corruption watchdog, Transparency International, lists
Russia as one of the most corrupt nations in the world.
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